Author's Note: Enjoy!
Disclaimer :I don't own the Teen Titans.
Chapter Nineteen
"Joy is Unwilling"
Anders woke up early on Sunday. It had to be around 5:00. He was so used to waking up early that he must have gotten a natural groove for it. He went into the kitchen. Starfire was up too. Their mother was still in bed.
"Hey Starfire, how are you? I haven't seen you in weeks."
"Why don't you have time to spend with me anymore Anders Did I make you mad? Do you hate me?"
Anders didn't know that she felt this way at all. He was suddenly filled with guilt.
"Oh no Star, its me. I've just been so busy with work and everything. A really good friend of mine went away like Daddy did, and I'm sad."
"Oh. I'm sorry."
She looked down at the floor and started to walk back to her room. Anders felt sadness and guilt in his heart.
I should spend time with her.
"Hey Star, what would you say to me hanging out with you all day? We could do whatever you want."
"Really? Anything I want?"
"Anything."
"That'd be great Anders! I'll go get my shoes."
She had a huge smile on her face. He smiled too. She returned in a few minutes with socks and shoes on. They left a note for their mother and were out.
"What do you want to do first?"
She thought for a moment.
"Lets go get some cookies!"
"What are cookies?"
"Something Gordando made, their good!"
Anders was very confused, but he trusted Gordando's food to always be good. The two made their way down the path to Gordando's hut. They knocked on the door and Gordando answered. He was covered in white dust.
"Hello. I see you've brought Anders. Come in."
"I brought him to show him how good those 'cookies' are. May we have some?"
"Sure, they're right there in that bowl. Help yourself."
"Thanks."
Starfire yanked Anders over to the bowl. He looked at them funny but he didn't want to disappoint his sister. He quickly downed one. He tried not to taste it, but one or two of his taste buds caught the taste. It was delicious!
"This is good! What do you call these again?"
"Cookies."
He took another. Then another. Then ten more after that. Soon after he had almost ate the entire bowl.
"Save some for me!"
"Oh, sorry. Whoa. I just felt some really strong jolts in my stomach."
"You have a stomach ache Anders, you ate too many too fast."
"What do I do?"
"Just take it easy. Go to the earth visitors and see if they have a remedy."
Starfire grabbed a few cookies before exiting with Anders. They slowly walked towards the earthlings base. There were two men standing outside. They had guns in their hands.
"What do you want."
"I have a 'stomach ache'. I was wondering if you could cure it for me."
"Right this way."
A door opened and Anders was escorted into a well light room. A bunch of men were standing around drinking some brown liquid that was steaming. They were laughing and joking. There were all sorts of weird things all around. There were small square boxes everywhere on shelves. They were on their sides and had writing on the sides. They were rather thin. There were small animals going around. Their tongues were hanging out. They were breathing very quickly. Anders wondered if they were dying. Why was everyone not paying attention to their breathing troubles.
He was led to a man with all sorts of little bottles around him.
"This is Henry, he'll tend to you."
And with that the tall man left.
"Hel-lo I am Hen-ry, can you under-stand me?"
"Yes, I'm not an idiot."
He looked shocked.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you spoke my language. Please excuse me for that."
"Its fine. I have what you call a 'stomach ache'. How can I treat it?"
"Well take some of this, its Pepto-Bismol."
"Anders looked at the pink bottle in confusion.
"Go on, it won't kill you."
Anders reluctantly took a drink. It was good. The pain started to fade almost instantly.
"Don't eat so much next time, ok?"
"Sure, and thanks."
"No problem."
With that Anders exited out of the base, escorted by a different man this time.
"Well, that was weird. That guy treated me like an idiot. What do you want to do next Starfire?"
She thought for a moment. She jumped and said, "I've got something we both can do, come on!"
She grabbed Anders's arm and pulled him along with her. They were running along the path to their neighborhood. They stopped and ran up to…..Renee's house.
"Starfire, no, we can't go to Renee's house, not now."
"Why not, did you two have a fight?"
"You could say that….yes, we had a fight."
She stopped dragging and looked at her big brother with her big green eyes. He looked at her and pleaded.
"No Anders, the only way to get over it is to forget you ever had it. I'm going to help you."
He thought about it, and still decided that he wasn't worthy of being seen by Renee.
He pulled away from her and started to walk away.
"I can't…," he whispered, "I just can't."
He walked into the forest and by the lake. Memories of Renee and him practicing combating moves flooded him. The moves, the lake, the stunning pain, then the kiss. The ever so innocent kiss that sent my life into a spiral of happiness and pain. The kiss that sent my soul into eternal unsure ness. The kiss that made me regret being alive, regret my emotions, regret me.
Author's Note: Now I'm starting to feel bad for Anders. Read and Review! Flaming is okay, because I'm too good to have any! Just kidding.